At 01:36 PM 7/22/2006, you wrote: >I wasn't talking about her data but her personal >emails to him ... his publication of them as a whole >exceeds Fair Use. Kathi, You may be correct; but then again, you may not. My point was that just because facts are presented in narrative form, the narrative is not necessarily copyrighted. The words/intellectual concepts must be original to the author. Phrases such as he was born, he married, he had these children, he enlisted, are standard nomenclature used by all genealogists over and over again. It absolutely depends on the content and wording of the personal emails, which I have not seen. Analysis of facts and conclusions based on discovered facts usually result in some limited copyright to the narratives because there is some wording that is original to the author. But the equivalent of a "narrative" as would be produced by many genealogy programs contains nothing original. Producing copyrightable genealogical narratives requires thought -- and don't we all wish there was more "thought" before "publication". Pat